An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle’s complete Poetics—the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding storiesAristotle’s Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels short fiction plays screenplays or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot character audience perception tragic pleasure and dozens of other critical points of good storytelling. Despite being written more